#shulker

shulkers are used for both transportation, communication, and storage, as well as just being pets. they like to hoard and will protect anything theyve collected as fiercely as their little gross isopod bodies can, so people have taken to using them like safes and giving them small valuables to keep an eye on. they only let their owners add to or take from their collection. their little projectiles still have the floating effect like in minecraft, which is where theyre used for transportation like helping end ships stay afloat or floating people up long vertical passageways like a fucked up elevator, but those projectiles can also be used to send messages between each other. theyre like funky messenger pigeons!! most endermen name their shulkers after themselves in some way so its easier for the message to find the right person, since shulkers have a sort of hivemind telepathic communication situation going on. (ozy would say "tell aurulent he smells like rotten fruit and looks like an old shoe" and ozyrus jr would send the message to aurulent the shulker). messages are received by the owners by making direct eye contact with the shulker also some people eat them like seafood <3 ozy refuses to because he loves his weird gross bug clam and thinks his shulker is the CUTEST one to EVER exist (jackie does NOT agree)